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Home Gardens For Home Markets

Watercolour
1930 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Empire Marketing Board (issuer)
Nash, Paul (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Original watercolour design for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. A colour illustration showing two wicker baskets of produce in the foreground, with two glasshouses and a watering can behind.

Object details

Categories
Propaganda
Prints
Posters
Object type
Watercolour
TitleHome Gardens For Home Markets (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour drawing
Pencil
Water-Colour
Drawing (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
'Home Gardens For Home Markets'. Original watercolour design by Paul Nash, for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. The final poster was issued by the Empire Marketing Board, Great Britain, 1930.
Physical description
Original watercolour design for one sheet of a poster made up of six sheets. A colour illustration showing two wicker baskets of produce in the foreground, with two glasshouses and a watering can behind.
Dimensions
  • Height: 95.3cm
  • Width: 149.8cm
Measurements taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
Signed
Credit line
Given by the Empire Marketing Board.
Object history
The purpose of the poster as a whole is to encourage the British public to celebrate and request home-grown produce.
Subjects depicted
Agriculture
British Empire
Food Industry (The)
Baskets
Fruit
Vegetables
Glasshouses
Watering Can
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.319-1934

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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